--- In ChicagoCubsfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "georgecatzi"
<georgecatzi@...> wrote:
>
> It should be known to all of us who love our Cubbies, no matter
what
> they do, or what Athena holds for them, that we were not the first
> tenants in what we now know as Wrigley Field.
>
> You see, in August 1913, the backers of an "outlaw" minor league
met
> at Indianapolis to set rules for a new, 'third' major league. It
was
> called the Federal League, and it would challenge both the Senior
> Circuit and the Americans for a share of the major-league pie.
>
> The Federales came into many major and minor league cities,
including
> Chicago, and went to war, going after both players and fans. In
the
> second year of operations, the Chicago Federal League franchise,
the
> Chicago Whales, won the Federal League pennant by one-thousandth of
a
> percentage point!
>
> Of course, the baseball war took it's toll, and in December 1915, a
> settlement was reached where the Feds went out of business, but
> allowed Whales owner, and Chicago restauranteur, Charles Weeghman,
to
> take over the Cubbies, and move them into the ballpark he built for
> the Whales, Weeghman Park. It wasn't until some years later that
> Weeghman Park became Wrigley Field.
>
> May it's because the previous tenants of the joint at 1060 W.
Addison
> Street won it there, that we can't win it all!
>
> As theory, this would certainly predate the Curse of the Billy Goat
> Tavern!
>
> So, why don't we suggest to Cubs brass to have a Whales Throwback
Day
> at The Friendly Confines? We could always get a good seat, and
this
> may spark our Cubbies to win it all!
>
> It might work....it could work....I'll do it!
>
> "Do they still play the blues in Chicago when baseball season rolls
> around?"
> - 'A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request', Steve Goodman
>
Don't forget that the Cubs used to be the Colts (and rocked in them
days). That changed when the Trib didn't have room for a five letter
headline. And how many times did the football Bears win at Wrigley?
(that'd be eight).